todays-xkcd · 6 months ago
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The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.
Doppler Effect [Explained]
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[Miss Lenhart is pointing with a stick to a whiteboard with various scientific drawings and words, including but not only a graph.] Miss Lenhart: The more distant a galaxy is, the redder its light. Miss Lenhart: Why? Well, that's an interesting question.
[Zoom in on Miss Lenhart.] Miss Lenhart: Ever notice how, when a siren is approaching, it sounds like Bweeeeeeeeee...
[Zoom in on Miss Lenhart with her arms raised.] Miss Lenhart: ...but then it zooms past you and goes Nyeeeeooooowww? Miss Lenhart: And sometimes they hit a button that makes it go Pyeew! Pyeew! really loud?
[Miss Lenhart with her finger raised is standing in front of the whiteboard and holding the stick down.] Miss Lenhart: And in Europe they go Ooooeeeeooooeeee... Off-panel voice: So why are galaxies red? Miss Lenhart: Oh, no idea. Miss Lenhart: Anyway, another siren I like is...
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gracemarieart · 2 years ago
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The Modular living pods
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kidmograph · 2 years ago
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xne · 1 year ago
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Cat Soup (2023)
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ad-astra-per-aspera-1389 · 6 days ago
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I can't be the only one that thinks it's really cool how the deep ocean and deep outer space, total opposites (to those on earth) are also total opposites in that red light cannot penetrate the deepest depths of the ocean, but the only light from the farthest away galaxies we can see (so far) is so far away that it's only light so redshifted that it's in the infrared. something something red light fuels our discoveries of one and cannot be perceived in the other
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elamimax · 4 months ago
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hey hey hey free book free book free book I wrote it myself
To make a very long story short: "what if Spiderman could fly instead of web swing, and she was a trans girl who had to learn the meaning of ACAB?"
Enjoy!
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theartofthecover · 7 months ago
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Redshift #1 (incentive variant) (2021)
Art by: Zach Howard and Sebastian Cheng
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fruitcage · 1 year ago
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Perception, Carlos Vega
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simpsforscience · 10 months ago
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What if you're told that the stars that appear to be white aren't always white ⬜?Ever wondered why do galaxies wear the cloak of redshift? 🤔Swipe ➡️ through to unlock 🔓 this mystery. To explore more about the cosmic evolution, follow our monthly series - Big Bang Theory ✨.
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real-live-human · 7 months ago
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robots who, for whatever reason, don't have any speakers or means of speaking out loud "normally." but they do have wireless communication, so any time they talk it just comes through a nearby radio/personal comm device/etc
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tsunadadudi · 6 days ago
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Ships that are making me physically ill and deranged include the dead ghost in the machine lesbian and the giant flat-toned clown taxidermist
Morgan has a type and it's tall lanky bitches who look some degree of exhausted
@uprising-trolls & @rampaciousairling thank you for my life
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todays-xkcd · 1 year ago
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So do you have any plans for z=-0.000000000000045?
Redshift [Explained]
Transcript Under the Cut
[Ponytail and Cueball are sitting at a table, eating dinner.] Cueball: So, when did you first get interested in early universe cosmology? Ponytail: Sometime around Z = 0.00000000038.
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gracemarieart · 1 year ago
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The Pastel beach condo
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kidmograph · 2 years ago
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Inner Growth (2019)
[Glad I can upload bigger GIFs now]
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10247 · 1 month ago
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Can't believe this project is moving foward!
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dinnickhowellslikes · 3 months ago
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Experimenting with VDB fire from Pixel Lab and Redshift
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